When you fall in love, and you’re very young, you think that that’s the love of your life. And maybe it is, but it usually doesn’t turn out that way. – Gene Wilder
I worked two days in Texas and two days in Hollywood on ‘Bonnie and Clyde,’ and that was it. I had no idea how it was going to turn out. And when I saw it, I was so upset, or fascinated, or something, by the sight of myself on the screen that I could hardly pay attention to the rest of the movie. – Gene Wilder
I love the art of acting, and I love film, because you always have another chance if you want it. You know, if we – if this isn’t going well, you can’t say – well, you could say – let’s stop. Let’s start over again, Gene, because you were too nervous. – Gene Wilder
What good is a character who’s always winking at the audience to let them in on the secret? – Gene Wilder
When I was in desperate trouble for maybe eight or nine years, I went to a neuropsychiatrist. – Gene Wilder
Actors fall into this trap if they missed being loved for who they really were and not for what they could do – sing, dance, joke about – then they take that as love. – Gene Wilder
A lot of comic actors derive their main force from childish behavior. Most great comics are doing such silly things; you’d say, ‘That’s what a child would do.’ – Gene Wilder
I never used to believe in fate. I used to think you make your own life, and then you call it fate. – Gene Wilder
I trust if your life is right, the right things will happen at the right time. If the chords are in harmony inside, I think other things will happen in the same way. That sounded highfalutin’ to me once, but I believe it now. – Gene Wilder
I write funny. If I can make my wife laugh, I know I’m on the right track. But yes, I don’t like to get Maudlin. And I have a tendency towards it. – Gene Wilder
Sidney Poitier was directing a film called ‘Hanky Panky.’ And he said, ‘Do you want to come with me to New York to see Gilda Radner in ‘Lunch Hour’ on Broadway? I said, ‘I don’t need to see her, I love her. I’ve wanted to write something for her for a long time. So it’s OK by me.’ – Gene Wilder
My mother was suffering every day of her life, and what right did I have to be happy if she was suffering? So whenever I got happy about something, I felt the need to cut it off, and the only way to cut it off was to pray. ‘Forgive me Lord.’ For what, I didn’t know. – Gene Wilder
The thing I love about making movies is the peace of mind that I know I don’t have to be perfect the first time. I can be perfect the second time or the third time. – Gene Wilder
We all grew up on movies with scenes where the actor is lying, and you know he’s lying, but he wants to make sure you know it’s a lie, and so he overacts and all but winks at you, and everybody in the world except for the girl he’s talking to knows he’s lying. – Gene Wilder
The world is not based on fairness. Human beings can rise to fairness, can administer something that makes it fair or just. But that’s not God. – Gene Wilder
When your mother gives you confidence about anything that you do, you carry that confidence with you. – Gene Wilder